The story
- New Latin · borrowed fromsalpingopharyngeus
- English todaysalpingopharyngeus
Borrowed from New Latin salpingopharyngeus, clipping of mūsculus salpingopharyngeus (“salpingopharyngeal muscle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
salpingopharyngeus
Today it means: A muscle of the pharynx that arises from the inferior part of the Eustachian tube near its opening and passes downward to the constrictors of the pharynx, joining the posterior part of the palatopharyngeus. Full definition →
New Latin salpingopharyngeus